Breakthroughs in statistics. Volume II: Methodology and distribution (Q1189441)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. For Vol. I see the preceding review.] This second volume of the scientific papers collection concerning statistics which have been of great influence on the development of statistics considers the period 1890-1970. It contains original articles by: \textit{K. Pearson} (1900), \textit{R. A. Fisher} (1925), \textit{R. A. Fisher} (1926), \textit{A. N. Kolmogorov} (1933), \textit{J. Neyman} (1934), \textit{H. Hotelling} (1936), \textit{F. Wilcoxon} (1945), \textit{F. Mosteller} (1946), \textit{J. Durbin} and \textit{G. S. Watson} (1950 and 1951), \textit{G. E. P. Box} and \textit{K. B. Wilson} (1951), \textit{E. L. Kaplan} and \textit{P. Meier} (1958), \textit{H. Chernoff} (1959), \textit{G. E. P. Box} and \textit{G. M. Jenkins} (1962), \textit{J. W. Tukey} (1962), \textit{M. W. Birch} (1963), \textit{P. J. Huber} (1964), \textit{D. R. Cox} (1972), \textit{J. A. Nelder} and \textit{R. W. M. Wedderburn} (1972), and \textit{B. Efron} (1979). Each item is prefaced by a prominent statistician.